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This article construes proper names in  Lolita  as ciphers. Nabokov employs them to serve specific narrative purposes, so that especially the name “Lolita” can be held responsible for structuring all relevant semantic aspects of the novel. This comprises basic phonological and morphological processes up to the general meaning and purport structure of the whole text. I will outline Nabokov’s basic strategies of presenting his fictional world, highlight the purposes of names used as narrative ciphers and show how these generate the archetypal, mythological as well as satirical impact of the novel.

Der Name “Lolita” als narrative Chiffre: Reduplikation und Transformation in Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita